Where I’ve Been Online (Jan 5 2013)

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  • About This Project

    Two-thirds of the faculty standing in front of college classrooms each day are off the tenure track. But getting information about the salaries of this army of adjuncts and the campus working conditions for them has proven nearly impossible. This site represents the evolution of a simple spreadsheet created in 2012 by Joshua Boldt, a composition instructor in Athens, Ga., to track salary information of adjunct professors around the country.

    tags: project adjunct academia teaching

  • The players, most of whom turned out to be male college students, reported spending over $200 per year on video games, and dedicating an average of 20.5 hours per week to playing them. But how much time and money was spent, found the researchers, was in no way related to the gamers’ social success.

    tags: study gamers friends relationships

  • This issue is meant to be a celebration of life, not an expression of grief. But since the tragedy
    in Newtown, Conn., grief has been unavoidable. Our wish for those who knew and loved the 20 children
    and 6 adults killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School is that they are held up by those around them
    until the day comes when they might feel something other than terrible loss. And our wish
    for the rest of us is that we all might help turn despair into hope.

    tags: nytimes

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